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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1939
Page
2
Treta Willits resumed teaching in Wapello last evening after a closure this week due to mud roads. She had been visiting with her parents Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Willits since Friday while the district school system remained shut. Bob Brinton of Brighton was summoned to the town this morning.
Marjorie White is ill and cannot work at the Rockwood ready wear store. Eve ning Journal reports Ella Kelly and niece Mary Pat Kelly of Iowa City visiting the Keith Sweet home to see Janet Sweet who is ill. D F Macon Auctioneer lists contact, while local residents attend a lecture by Andre Maurois. Mrs Ed Hanson expected home from Chicago after ballet and tap studies. Special St Pats Dance tomorrow night at Rendezvous.
Mrs. C Binck and daughter Donnta return to Ossian after two weeks with the James Alm family. Others visit stations in Iowa City Cedar Rapids and Ottumwa as church workers meet and students travel from Ames for a holiday between terms at ISC.
At the hospital Mr and Mrs Warold Romine Wellman are parents of a son born last night at 10 45 weighing eight pounds eight ounces Mrs Carl Daering Brighton underwent an appendectomy this morning Mrs Glenn Haygreen was discharged yesterday afternoon Mrs Dora Randall Kalona was discharged yesterday afternoon Mrs R C Curtis Brighton was admitted for treatment this morning
A Fort Madison delegation led by ex-senator Joe Frailey urged Gov. Wilson to acquire 15,000 acres of Green Bay bottom lands for a game preserve. Chicago landowner William Lodwick opposed the proposal and attended the governor meeting.
The senate claims committee introduced a bill to use general fund money to settle several state claims. The list includes Amana society 250 for secretary of state recording error Kathryn Hoyles 1000 for death of husband at Camp Dodge 1938 Cedar Falls 3590 for adjacent Teachers College property Linn county 3352 for care of three children at Davenport orphans home Sarah Starr Corneill
A Bluffs widow seeks $500 damages claiming her husband died while an inmate at Fort Madison state prison on June 15 1936. The filing outlines a damage claim arising from the death of the prisoner and seeks compensation.
DES MOINES The Iowa Senate marked the fortieth birthday of Sen E P Donohue with a lunch and a birthday serenade. Sen Hart hosted the event with cheese and wit as Governor Wilson attended and a quartet of senators plus Rev Bloomquist performed Happy Birthday and My Wild Irish Rose.
The University of Iowa plans new space to accommodate 1,738 students in four main dormitories in fall 1929. Additions to Hillcrest and Currier Hall boost capacity with Hillcrest housing 700, Dundrangle 419, and Currier Hall 525, while Eastlawn houses the remainder.
An inheritance sum of 1784 dollars was paid on the 74618 dollar estate of Alfred Willis Hull of Wellman, reported from Des Moines city records dated March 16.
Keokuk Iowa March 16 Frank Thompson 82 who confessed a crime and served a federal prison sentence says his good intentions were in vain. He recalled a November 1937 night when hungry and penniless he confessed a mail robbery at Georgetown Indiana to a policeman seeking a clean slate. Thompson later explained he confessed after falling in love with a Des Moines area farm girl and had served a term at the federal prison.
The article notes Pope Pius XII’s parents, Signor and Signora Pacelli. The father served as dean of the College of Consistorial Advocates in Rome.
Fayette Iowa March 16 Leslie Roberts 26 died when the automobile he rode in collided with a truck on highway 11 three miles south of Fayette John Koons 21 driver of the car was slightly injured Gilbert Mellree West Union driver of the truck stopped to wipe ice from his windshield inquest scheduled this afternoon
A federal prison hospital stay in Springfield Missouri preceded a return to Indianola where the man learned his former sweetheart wed a month earlier to another man.
Marie Jackson was the honoree at a cooperative Birthday Club dinner hosted by Mr. and Mrs. I. Rothschild. A St Patrick's Day color scheme adorned table decorations as twelve members gathered, and white elephant prizes followed dinner. A birthday gift was given to Miss Jackson.
The senate passed a measure revising entrance rules for the Iowa Soldiers' Home in Marshalltown. The bill requires veterans be residents of the state and meet specified eligibility terms before gaining admission to the home.
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